Noguchi Was a Babe

It was a bum out that Hurricane Sandy damaged a whole bunch of Isamu Noguchi’s works in storage in Long Island City, but all the Googling about it made us discover that he was a total babe! The waterfront museum/sculpture garden has about 360 of the artist’s original sculptures, many of which were installed by Noguchi himself.

Noguchi bought an old photogravure plant in the 1970s and eventually turned it into the museum which opened in 1985. An old tree was on the property, and not wanting to disturb it, basically planned the museum around it. Unfortunately, it died in 2008, so the museum hired artist collective Tree of Heaven Woodshop, who made the tree a permanent fixture in the museum- as benches and sculptures.

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Lori Zimmer

Lori Zimmer is a New York-based curator, writer and author of The Art of Cardboard and The Art of Spraypaint by Rockport Publishers. A former Chelsea gallery sales director, she founded Art Nerd New York in 2010, which focuses on art history and ...